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Date:      Thu, 23 Mar 1995 03:45:43 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, phk@ref.tfs.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
Subject:   Re: Why IDE is bad
Message-ID:  <199503221745.DAA20994@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> This might explain why my Intr time is so much lower than Poul's.
>> I have only 16MB, and don't use option BOUNCE_BUFFERS.  The bcopy()
>> for bouncing is done in a call from biodone().  biodone() is called
>> from the interrupt handler, at least for the wd driver.

>Excuse moi!  Why would we need bounce-buffers for wd.c when the IO
>is done using "REP INSW" ??

We don't.  We need to call biodone() for finishing i/o for all drivers,
and I'm not 100% sure that it is called from the interrupt handler
except for the wd driver.

Bruce



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